What's New in June 2020

Melbourne AWS User Group

AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.

The News Finally in Sydney ANZ

• Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available
• Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East

Serverless

• AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
• Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
• AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
• Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions)
• Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment

Containers

• Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
• AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
• Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
• Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
• AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available

EC2 & VPC

• AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
• Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
• Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
• Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
• ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables
• Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available

Security

• AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
• AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
• Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
• AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
• AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
• AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring

Dev & Ops

• Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog
• Announcing Amazon Honeycode
• Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
• AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
• EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
• AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments
• AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type

Databases

• Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
• AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune
• Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems
• Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift
• Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
• Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
• Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
• CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
• Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
• Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
• Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility

AI & ML

• DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge
• Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines
• AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach
• Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
• Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
• Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
• Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration

Other Cool Stuff

• AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
• Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs
• Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
• Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
• Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
• Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
• Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK
• Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
• Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice

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